Red Houppelande

This red velvet houppelande was my big project this last fall. I love this style of gown and started looking into the time span of the houppe. Fortunately, I found documentation of houppelandes dating back prior to our time period of 1371.

After collecting fabric and looking at multiple patterning ideas, I finally settled on each of the elements in this gown. Having never worked with velvet or fur, I was challenged from the start. From cutting to sewing, this was complicated.

I worked many hours per day all through winter break, and in the end finished just before 12th Night. It was such a relief to be done. 🙂

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I love your garb, and have been so inspired that I wish to make it myself, different colors of course. Would you mind answer some questions? Or could I use as someone to ask for help over e-mail when I start making it?

This is an astonishingly lovely gown! Would it be possible for me to share your image (fully accredited and with a link to your website) as an inspiration image for an LRP system that I’m working on the design for, please? Thanks so much! Jude

This is such a lovely gown! I am trying to sew my first houppelande (with a fur collar) and I am finding it almost impossible to get any info on sewing the fur. Can you walk me through what worked for you?